The Caribbean islands are uniquely susceptible to "flash droughts," according to new research.

A new study identifies factors that hinder diabetes self-management among Haitian migrants working in sugar cane fields in the Dominican Republic.

New research examines the effects of reptile loss on Caribbean islands. The top villain in the story: the mongoose.

Hispaniola's mountains support large swaths of intact tropical dry forests. A trip there turned up Castela senticosa, a new plant species.

A new paper rebuts a recent study claiming to find evidence of cannibalism on Caribbean island around 800 CE. It's a harmful myth, they say.

The closest family of the Haitian cave-rail, an extinct bird from the Caribbean, are from Africa and the South Pacific, not the Americas, a new study finds.

The largest and smallest Caribbean mammals have been the most vulnerable to extinction, a finding that may lead to ways to prevent future biodiversity loss.

Humans arrived in the Bahamas around 700 AD, far earlier than previously thought. Those new settlers dramatically changed the area's landscape.

The discovery of a fossil iguana nesting burrow answers questions about the now-endangered lizards.

New research with skulls upends ideas about who arrived in the Caribbean when. "We're going to have to reinterpret everything we thought we knew."